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Guilford College earns high green rating

Navya Belavadi, Staff Writer November 16, 2018

In The Princeton Review’s 2018 “Guide to 399 Green Colleges,” Guilford was named one of the most environmentally responsible colleges with a score of 88 on a scale of 60 to 99. The schools chosen...

Elon Musk plots underground tunnels

Ethan Santana, Staff Writer November 2, 2018

In his steady effort to revolutionize transportation and make it more eco-friendly, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has proposed and developed a series of underground transport tunnels as a...

California Senate Bill 100 to reduce emissions

Brendan Shoemaker, Staff Writer September 21, 2018

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 100, on Sept. 10th to remove carbon emissions from the state’s electric grid by the year 2045. Along with the bill, Brown signed an executive order designed...

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Guilford should say goodbye to plastic straws

Hannah Shoemaker, News Editor March 16, 2018

Let me set the scene for you. You’re at a restaurant. Your server brings you a glass of ice water and sets a straw on the table. You nod gratefully, unwrap the straw and use it to sip your drink. This...

EU sets recycling goal for 2030

Laura Hay, Staff Writer February 9, 2018

The European Union is prioritizing international sustainability by pledging to make all plastic packaging in Europe recyclable and reusable by 2030. Residents of Europe produce 25 million tons of plastic...

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Sustainable Food Systems faculty presents curriculum

Laura Hay, Staff Writers November 17, 2017

On Monday, Nov. 6, the Office of Student Leadership and Engagement and the Honors Program hosted a dinner and discussion about Guilford’s sustainable food systems program within the environmental studies...

Organizations abroad and at home act to save environment

Maksym Kosachevskyy, Staff Writer September 18, 2015

“The environmental crisis is extremely severe, and the effects could be ominous, threatening decent human survival, in the not very distant future,” said Noam Chomsky, an organizer of the call-to-action...

News in Brief

Lily Lou, News Editor September 4, 2015

Guilford named “green college” Guilford was included in The Princeton Review’s 2015 Guide to 353 Green Colleges. Selected out of over 2,000 other colleges and universities, Guilford has had great...

The Pines looking forward, tackling the diversity challenge

The Pines looking forward, tackling the diversity challenge

Banning Watson, Staff Writer October 31, 2014

The Pines has existed since the early 1940s and over the past 74 years, it has transformed into the sustainability house that we know today. However, house members have only recently begun to examine the...

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